Steve Shoemaker wrote this in response to Wallace Stevens’ poem “What Is Divinity” posted today on The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor. Click HERE for the Wallace Stevens poem and the Stevens’ bio posted today on The Writer’s Almanac.

         What Divinity Is

    (A response to Wallace Stevens)

…

The Madonna who pulls back just enough

of swaddling cloth to show the Magi what

had bled so recently on our behalf.

The twelve-year-old who finds a place to sit

among the wise (but disobedient

to both his searching, mystified parents.)

The  young man with the twelve who heals, confronts

the proud, turns water into wine, asks who

is without sin?  The one who shows the way

right here on earth to live in peace with neighbors,

enemies even…a human who

took bread and fish and shared it with the crowd…

the man who died alone crying for God.

 

– Steve Shoemaker, Urbana, IL, Oct. 2, 2012